WITH A BORDER BEARING THE INSCRIPTION VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN ETERNUM.

by After Albrecht DÜRer An Illuminated Vellum Leaf With

$8,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages · No longer available

Germany: ca. 1540 . 183 x 133 mm. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 . WITH A FULL-PAGE MINIATURE DEPICTING THE HARROWING OF HELL, featuring a naked Adam and Eve on the left, and on the right Christ bending down to rescue John the Baptist, the figures framed by a stone archway supporting a hairy creature who aims the point of a spear directly at Adam and Eve, the miniature in a thin brown frame with gilt lines, surrounded on two sides by the words VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN

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